[713] 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1856, p. 804; 1857, p. 820; 1862, p. 1195.
[714] Most of the largest cultivated strawberries are the descendants of F. grandiflora or Chiloensis, and I have seen no account of these forms in their wild state. Methuen's Scarlet (Downing, 'Fruits,' p. 527) has "immense fruit of the largest size," and belongs to the section descended from F. Virginiana; and the fruit of this species, as I hear from Prof. A. Gray, is only a little larger than that of F. vesca, or our common wood strawberry.
[715] 'Le Fraisier,' par le Comte L. de Lambertye, 1864, p. 50.
[716] 'Transact. Hort. Soc.,' vol. iii. 1820, p. 207.
[717] See an account by Prof. Decaisne, and by others in 'Gardener's Chronicle,' 1862, p. 335, and 1858, p. 172; and Mr. Barnet's paper in 'Hort. Soc. Transact.,' vol. vi., 1826, p. 170.
[718] 'Transact. Hort. Soc.,' vol. v., 1824, p. 294.
[719] 'Journal of Horticulture,' Dec. 30th, 1862, p. 779. See also Mr. Prince to the same effect, idem, 1863, p. 418.
[720] For additional evidence see 'Journal of Horticulture,' Dec. 9th, 1862, p. 721.
[721] 'Le Fraisier,' par le Comte L. de Lambertye, pp. 221, 230.
[722] 'Transact. Hort. Soc.,' vol. vi. p. 200.